New Revised Standard Version
Raise a standard toward Zion, flee for safety, do not delay, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Contemporary English Version
Head for Jerusalem or another walled town!' "Jeremiah, tell them I'm sending disaster from the north.

New American Bible
Raise the signal—to Zion! Seek refuge! Don’t stand there! Disaster I bring from the north, and great destruction.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.

Set up the standard in Sion. Strengthen yourselves, stay not: for I bring evil from the north, and great destruction.

the standard

Jeremiah 4:21 How long shall I see men fleeing away, how long shall I hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 50:2 Declare ye among the nations, and publish it, lift up a standard: proclaim, and conceal it not: say: Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is overthrown, their graven things are confounded, their idols are overthrown.

Jeremiah 51:12,27 Upon the walls of Babylon set up the standard, strengthen the watch: set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both purposed, and done all that he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon. . . .

Isaiah 62:10 Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to the people.

retire.

Jeremiah 1:13-15 And the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying: What seest thou? And I said: I see a boiling caldron, and the face thereof from the face of the north. . . .

Jeremiah 6:1,22 Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction. . . .

Jeremiah 21:7 And after this, saith the Lord, I will give Sedecias the king of Juda, and his servants, and his people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, and the sword, and the famine, into the hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword, and he shall not be moved to pity, nor spare them, nor shew mercy to them.

Jeremiah 25:9 Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

and a great

Jeremiah 50:22 A noise of war in the land, and a great destruction.

Jeremiah 51:54 The noise of a cry from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

destruction.

Zephaniah 1:10 And there shall be in that day, saith the Lord, the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and a howling from the Second, and a great destruction from the hills.